Sports update: Duke-UNC will have to wait

The winter storm and icy conditions moving through the South caused teams to postpone games scheduled for this week, including Wednesday night's showdown between No. 8 Duke and North Carolina.

The Associated Press

The winter storm and icy conditions moving through the South caused teams to postpone games scheduled for this week, including Wednesday night's showdown between No. 8 Duke and North Carolina.

Less than two hours before the announcement, school officials had said the game would be played.

However, North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement that Duke's bus could not get to the Blue Devils' Durham, N.C., campus to pick up the team for the 11-mile ride to the Tar Heels' arena in Chapel Hill.

Cunningham said the move was the "best decision to make at this time."

The game was rescheduled for Feb. 20.

Atlantic Coast Conference policy states games can go on as scheduled despite bad weather as long as the teams, game officials and operations personnel necessary to run the contest are on site.

Georgia Tech officials, like their ACC brethren in North Carolina, had said Tuesday that their game against Boston College on Wednesday would be played because the Eagles and the officials were in Atlanta.

But as the storm worsened, the game was postponed until Thursday with officials citing safety concerns.